How to pinch cucumbers

How to pinch cucumbers

To obtain a plentiful, early and friendly harvest, it is important to form the cucumbers correctly. To make it convenient to shape and harvest without damaging the lashes, you need to attach cucumbers to the trellis.

How to pinch cucumbers

You will need

• trellis
• twine
• scissors

Instruction manual

1. Tie the lashes on the trellis as soon as they begin to branch and bend. It is necessary to bind under cotyledon leaves and not tight, taking into account the growth and development of the plant.
2. Form a cucumber is necessary, depending on the grade . For example, hybrid varieties may not be formed at all if they are planted early and bear fruit in the greenhouse . This variety will have ovary and fruits on all lashes. The main thing is that there is enough time and strong shading does not happen due to the fact that the plants are thickened. Therefore, hybrid cucumbers should be planted very rarely, although this rule must be observed when planting any kind of cucumber, since if planting is dense, then even on the most fertile soil there will be a poor harvest.
3. If hybrid cucumbers are planted in open ground and not very early, then in order to have time to form and mature all the ovaries, the lashes must be formed.
4. To form lashes, trim the tops above the 6th leaf and leave 3 shoots in the plant. All other shoots formed must be removed. Also, regardless of the planting location on all shoots, it is necessary to remove the tops above the 6th leaf and trim the twisted lashes and yellowing leaves in a timely manner.
5. To form ordinary cucumbers that are not self-pollinated and pollinated by insects, it is necessary to form a plant in one, maximum two stems.
6. Leave 4 growth zones on the stems and remove the apex. All forming shoots except the main stem should be cut off. If you form cucumbers in two stems, then crop the shoots that appear, leaving the two main.
7. In growth zones, leave only those growth points from which you plan to harvest. Cut all other growth points. When forming, leave all the leaves, otherwise the ovaries will not have enough nutrients.
8. If weak and twisted lashes are formed, then they must also be removed.
9. Having formed the cucumbers correctly, the crop will be earlier and plentiful.